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The college JVews
VOL. XLI, NO. 20
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1945
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Bruchholz Tells
Role of Alliance
In Student Life
Organization Sponsors
All War Activities
Specially contributed by
Dorothy Bruchholz '46
The War Alliance feels the need
at this time to clarify its position
on campus, and to sum up the
year's activities. Progress-has bee.n
made involving changes which' we
need now to evaluate.
Eleven days before Pearl Harbor,
the Alliance was set up as a com-
mittee to promote undergraduate
defense activity. Since that time,
with the need of mobilizing the
campus to help win the war, its
aims and functions have broaden-
ed considerably. During 1942-43, it
emerged an independent organiza-
zation with a new name, "The War
Alliance",�and with a constitu-
tion stating its purpose of initiat-
ing and coordinating all war activ-
ity on campus. In carrying out its
aim to direct the efforts of the un-
dergraduate body (each student
is ipso facto a member) it cooper-
ates with the faculty, the College
Council, and the Undergraduate
Council. The members of the War
Alliance Board are the chairmen
of: The Red Cross Unit, Current
Events, War Bonds and Stamps,
Volunteer Drives and Publicity. A
graduate representative has re-
cently been added to the Board in
order�to integrate campus effort
more completely.
W�8 Work
Recent reports by the chairmen
have shown very substantial
achievement during the year. In
the first semester more than 100
students worked in activities spon-
sored by the Red Cross Unit,
through which Bryn Mawr has be-
come a vital branch of a large na-
Continnti on Ptgt 1
Faculty Presents
Graduate Award
To J. Burroughs
Josephine Lewis Burroughs, As-
sistant in Philosophy and Graduate
Student, has been chosen by the
faculty to receive the)Fanny Bul-
lock. Workman Traveling Fellow-
ship for the coming year.
Miss Burroughs is writing her
dissertation on Substance and Sys-
tem in the. Philosophy of Leibnitz,
derived from a paper she wrote
previously on "Some Consequences
of Leibnitz's Initial Rationalistic
Assumptions." The dissertation is
primarily a study of the relations
holding between Leibnitz's concepts
of metaphysics and his concepts
of physics. She plans to use the
award, ordinarily a foreign fellow-
ship, for further study at the Uni-
versity of California.
Miss Burroughs received her
A. B. degree at Smith College in
1942, and did graduate work at
Columbia the following year. She
is the Senior Resident of Radnor
Hall this year.
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B. M. Girls Lead
Nurses' Chorus
At the suggestion of Miss Ro-
wan, head . nurse at the Bryn
Mawr Hospital, four students
have organized a singing group
among the student nurses at the
hospital. The group, which meets
each Monday evening, is doing
part singing of many well-known
pieces including "Swing Low,
Sweet Chariot," "Mighty Like a
Rose," and the "Praye�" from
Hansel and C.retel.
The program was initiated with
the help of Elizabeth Borum, '46,
and Mrs. De Varon assisted by di-
recting the first meeting. The
students have now taken over,
with Alison Barbour, '47, Ann
Matlack, '47, and Maggie Hilgart-
ner, *46, directing, and Mary Ellin
Berlin, '48 accompanying.
Preview of 'Arms and the Man9
Promises Excellent Performance
by Emily Evarts, '47
Rosina Bateson, '47
The process of finding an un-
known building on the Haverford
campus can lead to some rather
difficult moments. Some students
who attend Haverford have not yet
learned that purely rhetorical ques-
tions have a recognized usage on
other campuses. For instance,
when one downy-faced Freshman
was asked where Arms and the
Man could be found, his reply was
a pointed gesture at his own manly
chest.
� The misunderstanding was clari-
fied by the explanation that Arms
and the Man was a play in process
of being rehearsed by the Varsity
Players and the Cap and Bells Club.
Roberts Hall, when discovered,
was echoing with gunshots pro-
duced by heavy stamping of feet
offstage. A thick Russian accent
boomed above the din, conveying
the information that the lovely
heroine had hidden an enemy pro-
fessional soldier on hejr balcony.
This was not strictly a Romeo and
Juliet setting, for the aforemen-
tioned balcony was merely a table.
The unfinished scenery seemed
to cause some " difficulty to the
actors. The butler proceeded to
dump an armful of fire-wood on
the imaginary window seat instead
of in the fireplace that wasn't
there.. When the hero collapsed
heavily onto the sofa, present in
the form of three straight backed
chairs, he found that he had mis-
calculated and his head dangled
over the end, producing an effect
similar to yogi.
The timing of the chocolate
cream soldier's prize remark was
receiving careful attention. Briefly,
instead of bullets he seemed to be-
lieve in the milder protection of
candy. The heroine rather nastily
offered him a stale box of choco-
lates, presumably1 the gift of her
ideal lover. "Creams?" gloated the
hero; pause. The director, seated
in theykwenty-third row counted to
ten in stentorian tones. The result
of this split second timing was an
appreciative "mm! Delicious!"
from the air-munching hero.
In its more serious moments of
rehearsal, the play seemed to be
handled with able acting talent.
Georgie Wiebenson as Luca and
Nancy Schwartz as Raina were es-
pecially good. Haverford's Cap and
Bells showed ability in their varied
roles. Given time to materialize,
the potentialities of Arms and the
Man will undoubtedly be realized.
Simmons To Talk
About Civilization
Of Soviet Russia
Final Series of Lectures
On Eastern Civilization
The third and last of the series
of lectures entitled Chinese, Indian
and Russian Civilization given by
the class of 1897 will be presented
by Dr. Ernest J. Simmons.
, The lecture series are given in
order to acquaint the students and
community with the basic phases
of the great non-Western civiliza-
tions. It is hoped that these series
will be just a beginning, and that
in the future, further series may
be given on the Japanese and Per-
sian civilizations. The library has
put books on Russian literature,
philosophy, history, politics, and
humor in the Quita Woodward
Room.
The subject of this last series is
The Spirit of Russian Civilization
and Thought; the lectures, to be
given in Goodhart at 8:00, are open
to the public. The titles of the lec-
tures are:
April 9: Background: Church and
State.
April 11: Russian Civilization
and the West.
April 16: Towards Revolution.
April 19: Soviet Russian Litera-
ture.
April 23: Russia Today: A
Changing Civilization.
Dr. Ernest J. Simmons is Asso-
ciate Professor of the Russian Lan-
guage and Literature at Cornell
University since 1941. Assistant
professor of English at Harvard
University from 1937 to 1941, he
was also Director of Cornell's 1944
Study in Contemporary Russian
Civilization. Dr. Simmons is the
author of English Literature and
Culture in Russia, Dostoevski: The
Making of a Novelist, Pushkin, and
Outline of Modern Russian Litera-
ture.
Duncan Submits
Yearly Budgets
Use of Dues Outlined
By Common Treasurer
In an effort to clarify the use
of the money collected in college
dues and handled by the Common
Treasury, Lucretia Duncan '46, has
submitted a full account of the
budgets for all the associations
utilizing the Treasury. These in-
clude the Undergraduate Associa-
tion,.the Alliance, the League and
the Self-Govemment Association.
Primary among these is the Un-
dergraduate Association, whose
budget is as follows:
Pay Day Mistresses ............$690.00
Hall Announcers ................ 120.00
Monitors (reserves) ............ 60.00
Cut Committee ..................... 30.00
Seniors' caps and gowns .... 70.00
Lost and Found .................... 20.00
Candles for lanterns .......... 10.00
Freshman Week Committee 75.00
May Day Band ................... 36.00
Parade Night Band ............ 50.00
College Conference ............ 70.00
Service Charges................... 50.00
Miscellaneous....................... 100.00
Entertainment Committee 50.00
Publicity^..............................." 20.00
Elections................................ 60.00
Total_______------- $1,390.00
Dues were made $3.00 a person to
allow a surplus for emergencies.
The Alliance
The Alliance budget is based on
the expenditures from October,
Continued on Page 4
Campus Gives Total of $3,247.31
To Red Cross War Fund Drive
Calendar
Thursday, March 22
12:45 Spring Vacation begins.
Tuesday, April 3
9:00 Spring Vacation ends.
Deferred examinations
begin.
Wednesnay, April 4
12:30 Inauguration of College
Officers, Goodhart.
7:30 Vocational Conference,
Architecture and Design,
Common Room.
Thursday, April 5
5:00 Roger H. Soltau: ^'Free-
dom and Authority in
Modern French Poli-
tics", Music Room.
8:30 Sigma Xi meeting, Dean-
ery.
Friday, April 6
6:30 Joint meeting of new
and retiring offiiers of
College Council, Dean-
ery. /
Saturday, April 7
Deferred examinations
end.
Sunday, April 8
7:30 Chapel, Rev. John Wal-
thour of West Point.
Monday, April 9
7:15 Current Events, Com-
mon Room.
8:00 Dr. Ernest J. Simmons,
"The Spirit of Russian
Civilization & Thought:
Background, Church and
State". Goodhart.
4:30 First meeting of the
Marriage Council lec-
tures.
Wednesday, April 11
.8:00 Dr. Ernest J. Simmons,
"Russian Civilization &
the West".
Students Teach
At Valley Forge
Five undergraduates are now
engaged lit volunteer work in the
Arts and Skills Corps of the Red
Cross at Valley Forge, teaching
the men leather work and plastics.
The Arts and Skills group was or-
ganized by Mrs. Chadwick-Collins,
who secured Mrs. William Dalzell,
'98, to teach the fundamentals to
these students.
Work at Valley Forge began
with the second semester, with
each girl working in the wards,
since the Army has had to take
over the room originally designat-
ed for this work to provide space
for 600 new beds. The girls are
given small carts and travel
through the wards to bring the
Work to men who would be inter-
ested.
Rockefeller Leads Halls;
Faculty Gives $734.00
To Drive -v
A grand total of $3,247.31 was
announced as the sum of the
amounts collected for the Red
Cross War Fund during the recent
five-day campus drive. This total
contribution, which will go to the
Red Cross in the name of Bryn
Mawr College, includes the dona-
tions of all individual students,
facutly, administration and staff.
The Freshman Show contribution
has not yet been totalled.
The student committee, headed
by Barbara Taylor '46, collected a
total of $2382.31 from individual
undergraduates, and wardens and
hall-managers. This indicates an
average of $4.00 per undergradu-
ate, a record which is unusually
high when compared with the con-
tributions to the Red Cross made
through the Activities Drive in
past years.
Continued on Page 3
Barton, Hoffman, Cross, Binger
Nominated for Chapel Chairman
The Bryn Mawr League Board ha^s
nominated Mary Barton, Elisabeth
Hoffman, Mary Cross, and Frances
Binger for the position of head of
the Chapel Committee.
The Head of Chapel chooses the
ministers who are to come as
speakers, arranges dinners for
them before the Services, and in-
formal discussions afterwards. She
helps plan the Chapel services and
is a member of the League Execu-
tive Board.
Mary Barton
Mary is the first Junior member
of the Self-Government Associa-
tion. She has been a permission
giver since the middle of her Soph-
omore year. She is hall represen-
tative for chapel services. She was
on the hockey squad her Freshman
year and belongs to the Science
Club.
Elisabeth Hoffman
Betty is Secretary-Treasurer of
the League this year. She is the
Alliance representative in Denbigh.
She belongs to the Science and the
Dance Club, and is the Vice-Presi-
dent of Denbigh.
Mary Cross
Mary is a member of the Glee
Club and is en the Sophomore
basketball team. She is an Usher
at Chapel, and is a Corrector of
the Maids and Porters' play. She
is a permission giver in Rhoads.
Frances Binger
Frannie is an Assistant Head of
Chapel this year. She is a member
of the Glee Club and has just com-
pleted her Nurses' Aide course.
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Bree Will Return
To French Dept.
Mile. Germaine Bree of the
French department, will return to
resume teaching at Bryn Mawr .
next fall. Mile. Bree, now serving
with the French armed forces, was
an Associate Professor of French
here for seven years.
In a recent letter to Miss
Schenck, Mile. Bree wrote the fol-
lowing: "Last week the 60th Re-
giment dlnfanterie (a regiment
formed in 1669) nominated me
'soldat d'honneur de. 1st classe'
with the privilege of wearing the
'fourragere' which is a great hon-
our. We are reforming it entire-
ly with volunteers from the Ma-
quis."
Since Mile. Bree had taught in
North Africa before she originally
came to Bryn Mawr, she- was well
prepared for her first assignment
as a member of the First French
Women's Ambulance Corps in
North Africa.
After transferring to De Gaulle's
offices in Algiers, Mile. Bree was
then sent as an aide to a general
in the field. She is now an inter-
preter at the Burgundy headquar-
ters.